Business Development
The South Side Innovation Center offers the following services to its clients/tenants:
- Entrepreneurial awareness to spotlight skills and needs for prospective and existing entrepreneurs
- Financial literacy to improve knowledge and skill
- Roundtables for intensive discussions on hot topics
- Business plan development
- Technical assistance in the many aspects of business
- SSIC Academy: 180 hours of business courses and training
- Test Kitchen for commercializing food products and helping foodpreneurs
- Help in entity creation
- Support in MWBE and Disadvantaged Business Certification
- Community Business Partners program
- Micro-credit loan program
- Procurement & market access assistance